Wichita eagle., 1887-03-01
IN MEMORIAM.

lieu al LnlS, Guy, yesterday Aioiu Lilly az
the residence of her eldest son, Mrs. Cath
arine Murdoch, in the seventy-first year OF
her age.
The deceased was the wife of Thomas Muir
dock and the mother of NJ NJ. and r. P.
Murdoch of this paper, T. B. Murdoch OF the
ElDorado Republican, Mrs. Levara Stotler
wife of Hon Jacob Stotler of Emporia, and
of Mrs Ella Pemberton of Leavenworth
Catherine Murdoch was born in Monongheia
county, Virginia, in 1916 and was married to
Rev. Thomas Murdoch in 1886; she came to
Kansas with her husband and family in the
spring of 1857, located at Topeka afterwards
in 1859 moving to Emporia, where with her
husband she has resided every since.
The fiftieth anniversary Of her wedding
occurred on the 9th of December; the two
aged and loving parents came down to Wich-
ita to celebrate the event with their soBs,
their wives and families, but on the 18th
of that month she took severe cold, which
being followed by other complications re-
suited in her death after a very long and
tedious illness, during hich there occurred
bright days of hope, now and then, only to
be followed by greater prostration and great
er suffering. She had been protesting and
trusting Christian since early childhood, ana
so calm and peaceful wss her exit from the
world that the attendant at her bedside vas
for a moment uncertain whether or not the
spirit had really taken IFS final flight for
that restful home of tranquil breath IN the
fathomless realms where the fragrance OF
eternal life is limited only by the immeas-
urable love of the Infinite.
The tears, the trials and the heart aches OF
three score years and ten of that dear pa
tient mother are now lost in the triumphant
light of an all enconpassiDg love, where
impaired stars fade not, but where the
fash of brig ht-wipged seraphs as they min
lister unto her revealed joys as full and com
plete as the wisdom and supreme compassion
of Him who in love fashioned that home of
many mansions" wherein the feet OF His
weary children might find rest.
h-other How to every child of earth is
that dear name fraught with more tender
memories. with deeper impresses of heart;
how it is clustered about with brighter i'm
ages of purity and taithiulness, how it Is
embalmed with greater assurances OF
dearhless life and an unselfsh love, is laden
ed with sweeter fragrance from he altar of
the human heart, more potent with the
trusting child, more constant in its influence
on the maturing and rounding life, than that
Of any other earthly name lisl ed by the hui
man tongue, need not be told the child of
any race Her look, her voice, her embrace,
her lullaby gs aid hymns how they 60
trot ping TIN ough the chambers of every
heart, like echoes from lips that are dumb
or the music that only spirits can hear.
Through The trembling folds of h. twilight dim
can hear the strain OF that Grand OLD ny nm
Which mother. who-e heart Is now still ana cold,
sang amidst her cares In the days OF Old"
SO this morning all that remains Of that
moiher-our mother-Nill be carried back
by loving bands and laid beside the moul
dering dust of her youngest boy, near the
brow of the hill which oveIlooks the life
scenes of all her later years. Before the day
descepds earth will be consigned to earth,
ana dust to dust, and as the city of the liv-
lug ldilS DeuedlH Tue ebduO" VI the SbibiuS
night may the city OF the dead upon that ris-
ing slope still hold the light of the setting
sun-the living in the dan kness, the dead i'll
the liz bt ,-embl, matte of the life that now
is, prophetic of the life " hch Is to come.
Beyond The Sc chilling winds and blooming skies.
BeyoI d deaths cloudy portal
There is land ~ here boeuty never dies,
And 10, becomes immortal.
"A land I" hose light is never dinmed by shade.
Whose fields vtrnal,
Where nothing beautiful ever fade,
But blooms for a. E. eternal
1.-The city's shinir towers we may not
Sith our hin earthly vision;
For death. the silent WI rider, keeps the key
That opes those gates ely sian.
The fiery unset fingers.
Its z lden gates swing inward noisle sly.
Unlocked by sit.nt fingers.
And while they stand moment half atar.
CLEANS from the liner glory
Stream lie htiy through tie azure Walt affair."
and half revealed The story.
20 land unknown, @ land OF love divine.
Father Allwise. Eternal.
G.ide guide these wandering. way feet Of
Unto tn Sc pastures vernal."